Naive Bayes, LDA, and QDA Classifiers
Modeling p(x|y) instead of p(y|x) changes the parameter count, and the parameter count decides the winner.
Modeling p(x|y) instead of p(y|x) changes the parameter count, and the parameter count decides the winner.
One sentence covers all of them. The shape of the penalty decides everything else.
Not a classifier — a conditional probability fitted by maximum likelihood.
The model people reach for first and interpret most confidently.